5-letter words containing e, v, a
- gavel — feudal rent or tribute.
- gavle — a seaport in E Sweden.
- glave — glaive.
- grave — the grave accent.
- halve — to divide into two equal parts.
- harve — a male given name, form of Harvey.
- havel — Václav [vahts-lahf] /ˈvɑts lɑf/ (Show IPA), 1936–2011, Czech writer and political leader: president of Czechoslovakia 1989–92; president of the Czech Republic 1993–2003.
- haven — a harbor or port.
- haver — to equivocate; vacillate.
- haves — The wealthy or privileged, contrasted to those who are poor or deprived: the have nots.
- havre — a seaport in N France, at the mouth of the Seine.
- heave — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- heavy — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- hevea — Pará rubber.
- hovea — any of various plants of the Australian genus Hovea, having clusters of small purple flowers
- jahve — a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah.
- javel — (obsolete) A vagabond.
- knave — an unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest person.
- larve — Dated form of larva.
- laved — to wash; bathe.
- laver — Rod(ney George) born 1938, Australian tennis player.
- laves — to wash; bathe.
- leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leavy — leafy.
- loave — Alternative form of lofe.
- mauve — a pale bluish purple.
- maven — an expert or connoisseur.
- naeve — (obsolete) A naevus; a pigmented spot.
- naevi — Irregular plural form of naevus.
- naive — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- navel — umbilicus (def 1).
- naves — Plural form of nave.
- navie — Archaic spelling of navy.
- neiva — a city in W Colombia.
- nerva — Marcus Cocceius [kok-see-yuh s] /kɒkˈsi yəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 32?–98, emperor of Rome 96–98.
- novae — a star that suddenly becomes thousands of times brighter and then gradually fades to its original intensity.
- ovate — egg-shaped.
- oveta — a female given name.
- parev — containing neither meat nor milk products and so fit for use with either meat or milk dishes
- parve — pareve.
- paved — (of a road, path, etc) covered with a firm surface suitable for travel, as with paving stones or concrete
- paver — a person or thing that paves.
- peavy — peavey.
- piave — a river in NE Italy, flowing S and SE into the Adriatic. 137 miles (220 km) long.
- quave — (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.
- ravel — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- raver — to talk wildly, as in delirium.
- reave — to take away by or as by force; plunder; rob.
- reval — former German name of Tallinn.